Aaron Davis

My primary research broadly focuses on catchment water quality in northern Australia, particularly the role of anthropogenic (human) stressors  such a nutrients, pesticides and sediments in aquatic communities. Key research interests include working with farming stakeholders to develop agricultural practices that deliver benefits from a natural resource management perspective, while also ensuring the long-term agronomic, social and economic viability of farming enterprises. Improving science communication, particularly utilising emerging digital technologies, around natural resource management and conservation issues is also a key theme.

Other research interests include landscape ecology in relation to wetland connectivity, food web ecology, and ecosystem relationships to hydrological (streamflow) regime. My research interests also span fish ecology, particularly size-related dietary ecology, and the evolutionary processes influencing the present-day Australasian fish fauna. This includes the biogeographic, phylogenetic and paleoecological drivers that have shaped the unique contemporary fish assemblage structure seen in Australian freshwaters.